Nighttime hikers celebrate the new year at Quarry Hill
Parks proved a solace for people in a difficult year, and a popular place to ring in 2021. 8:47 pm, Dec. 31, 2020 ×
Lauren Nichols and Brandon Smith walk along a path lit by luminaries as part of Quarry Hill Nature Center s first Friday Night Lights event with their children Griffin, 4, and Georgeie, 1, in a carrier on Brandon s back, on New Year s Eve Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020, in Rochester. (Joe Ahlquist / jahlquist@postbulletin.com)
How do you send off a year few people will regret seeing in the rear-view mirror?
For more than 150 people in Southeast Minnesota, they’ll do it outdoors a place that offered solace during a difficult year.